Plagiarism prevention (Turnitin)

Description

York University strives to maintain the highest level of academic integrity and the accompanying policy available below, states that plagiarism will not be tolerated. Turnitin has released a major product upgrade called Turnitin Feedback Studio, which is a more streamlined user interface of the product while maintaining all of the functionalities of Turnitin. Text-matching software, such as Turnitin, can be used to detect plagiarism by assisting instructors to determine the percentage of text from a student assignment that matches text from:

Student papers previously submitted to Turnitin.

Similar material submitted to public websites.

Journal articles, periodicals and commercial databases.

How do I get it?

Instructors must first obtain a valid Turnitin account ID and Turnitin join password from accounts@yorku.ca.